Pre-Check Agent Shenanigans

Had a first today in PHL. An employee goes through before me. She was chatty with the agents and had an airport badge she put in a bowl to go through the x-ray, so I'm positive. She set off the machine with a beep. I was then waved through and had no beep but was directed to do the random hand swipe.

I actually did a double take and verbally confirmed with her that I was the one to have to step aside.

Modified random selection.

It's all a joke anyway, so I'm not upset about the "security" aspect. The brazen disregard for their own rules was the more shocking and annoying part.

Had a first today in PHL. An employee goes through before me. She was chatty with the agents and had an airport badge she put in a bowl to go through the x-ray, so I'm positive. She set off the machine with a beep. I was then waved through and had no beep but was directed to do the random hand swipe.

I actually did a double take and verbally confirmed with her that I was the one to have to step aside.

Modified random selection.

It's all a joke anyway, so I'm not upset about the "security" aspect. The brazen disregard for their own rules was the more shocking and annoying part.

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Welcome to TSA! I'm fairly sure that these folks can set off the "beep" at the machine "randomly" any time that they want. At this point, SNL could devote an entire hour-long show to comedy skits about the TSA.

Had a first today in PHL. An employee goes through before me. She was chatty with the agents and had an airport badge she put in a bowl to go through the x-ray, so I'm positive. She set off the machine with a beep. I was then waved through and had no beep but was directed to do the random hand swipe.

I actually did a double take and verbally confirmed with her that I was the one to have to step aside.

Modified random selection.

It's all a joke anyway, so I'm not upset about the "security" aspect. The brazen disregard for their own rules was the more shocking and annoying part.

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Hey, two strikes. One its PHL. Two it's the tsa. Three would be if you intentionally slap the scanner to set it off After telling the smurfs they were mistaken.

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